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Since I start my day with a smoothie, around 10 am I’m ready for a little something- usually sweet. I like to make healthy muffins because they satisfy a sweet craving, and usually keep me sustained until lunch. I tend to look for muffins that are low in sugar, and try to substitute healthy flours and fruits to make them worth my while. They are a great breakfast treat for milo too.

I found the recipe for some bran muffins here. Then I customized them to make them vegan. You can add any kind of fruit, or even use spelt flour if you wanted to stay away from white flour. Spelt flour is my favorite to add to muffins!

Whisk almond milk, flax, oil (or oil and apple sauce), and mashed banana and coconut palm sugar in a bowl. Whisk bran, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Stir wet mixture into dry until just combined and still a bit rough.

Spoon two 2 tablespoons of batter into each prepared muffin cup. Add about 3-4 blue berries to each muffin and sprinkle each with one of the teaspoons of granulated sugar (1 tspn divided over the 12 muffins). Spoon remaining batter (about 1 tablespoon each) over fruit and sprinkle tops of muffins with remaining teaspoon of granulated sugar.

This turned out to be a giant banana bread, but good thing, because it was so so good! I’m not one to usually add chocolate chips to my banana bread, but I’m glad I did. The recipe is from Vegan Diner. That book has yet to fail me. Everything I have made is so delicious!

Mix the almond milk, vinegar, oil, molasses, brown sugar and vanilla together until incorporated. Add the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Cook according to your waffle iron instructions and enjoy!

Last week I picked up one of those Zoku popsicle makers. I had a gift card to sur la table sitting in my wallet for the last five years or so, and happened to be near one, and saw this and thought that milo would really enjoy it. If you are not familiar with them, you put it in the freezer for 24 hours, make your popsicle mix from fresh ingredients, pour it in and in 10 minutes or so you have frozen popsicles. Milo was so excited when I showed it to him and asked every morning if we could make popsicles. He talked all about making green ones, so that is what we made first. I was a little skeptical, because the green comes from honeydew, not my most favorite thing to eat, but they turned out really great. These are a mix of honeydew, lime juice, sugar, (not very much I might add) water and basil. They were really easy to make and froze nicely. We ate them out on the back patio enjoying these last days of summer….

The recipe is from vegan scoop. I just combined the banana recipe and the chocolate recipe. Cant wait to eat this in a bowl with some peanut butter too! Tonight we opted for cones. Great summer treat for sure.

I finally broke out my kitchen aid ice cream maker and made a batch of apricot basil ice cream. I adapted a recipe from vegan scoop. The ice cream bowl had been in the freezer for about two months, but of course when I wanted to make ice cream, somehow the freezer door was open the night before, and the bowl wasn’t totally frozen I guess. So the texture came out pretty icey instead of creamy. Thats ok. Ill try again. And I saved this bowl of ice cream by adding some almond milk and making a milk shake. Ice cream making will hit again!